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Corticosterone responses differ between lines of great tits (Parus major) selected for divergent personalities.
General and comparative endocrinology - 1 Feb 2012
Baugh Alexander T, Schaper Sonja V, Hau Michaela, Cockrem John F, de Goede Piet, van Oers Kees
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Animal 'personality' describes consistent individual differences in suites of behaviors, a phenomenon exhibited in diverse animal taxa and shown to be under natural and sexual selection. It has been suggested that variation in personality reflects underlying physiological variation; however there is limited empirical evidence to test this hypothesis in wild animals. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is...
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